[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [The Compendium of Bheḷa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela) › 6.4 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 6.4 Bheḷasaṃhitā 6.4 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.1) svapneṣu nityaṃ paśyanti śuṣkāndagdhāṃś ca pādapān | makṣikātṛṇakeśāś ca sampatantyasya bhojane || > In dreams, they constantly see withered and burnt trees; / and flies, grass, and hairs fall into his food; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.2) romāṇi mūrdhajāś cāsya vivardhante viśeṣataḥ | avaguṇṭhanaśīlaś ca rahaḥkāmotthakopanaḥ || > his body hair and head hair grow excessively; / he is prone to veiling himself, desirous of solitude, and prone to outbursts of anger; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.3) jugupsāluramarṣī ca strīkāmo durbalendriyaḥ | ucitā hīyate chāyā tāluśoṣś ca jāyate || > loathsome, intolerant, desirous of women, with weakened faculties; / his usual complexion declines, and dryness of the palate arises; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.4) nāsāsrāvaḥ pratiśyāyaḥ svarabhedaśśirorujā | ūrū ca svidyato ' tyarthaṃ hāniś ca balavarṇayoḥ || > nasal discharge, catarrh, hoarseness, headache, / both thighs sweat excessively, and there is loss of strength and complexion; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.5) śirasaḥ paripūrṇatvaṃ hastapādaṃ cadahyate | aruciś cāvipākaś ca mūrchā śvāso mṛdurjvaraḥ || > fullness of the head, and burning in the hands and feet; / anorexia, indigestion, fainting, dyspnea, and mild fever; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.6) kṣatoraskaś ca kāsena niṣṭhīvati saśoṇitam | etāni pūrvarūpāṇi yakṣmiṇāṃ kīrtitāni ca || > and wounded in the chest, he spits bloody matter with coughing. / These are proclaimed as the premonitory symptoms of those with consumption (yakṣman). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.7) ṣaṭ caikādaśarūpāṇi śuṣyatastāni lakṣayet | ucchritopadravaṃcainaṃ pūrvarūpairabhidrutam || > One should observe those six and eleven symptoms in one who is wasting; / and him, afflicted with prominent secondary complications and premonitory symptoms, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.8) prakṣīṇabalamāṃsaṃ ca na cikitsedviśoṣiṇam | alpopadravasaṃyuktamaciropadravotthitam || > and whose strength and flesh are completely wasted away, one should not treat for wasting; / \[only one\] joined with minor secondary complications, and arisen with recent secondary complications, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.9) dravyavantaṃ vayaḥsthaṃ capratyākhyāyārabheta vai | athāsyānumataṃ pūrvaṃ pravakṣyāmi cikitsitam || > one who possesses resources and is of prime age, having declared \[the prognosis\], one should indeed undertake \[to treat\]. / Now, I shall declare the treatment that was formerly approved for him, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.10) yadadhītya bhiṣagyuktyā yaśaḥ svargam avāpnuyāt | śoṣī nity ajugupsāluḥ sukhaśīlaś ca mānavaḥ || > having learned which with proper application, a physician attains fame and heaven. / A wasting patient is constantly prone to disgust and fond of comfort; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.11) lolo dveṣṭā nikṛṣṭānāṃ vaidyabhaiṣajyakutsakaḥ | tasmāt tasyānukūlena bhiṣajā++āśvasanena ca || > fickle, hating low things, and contemptuous of physician and medicine. / Therefore, by a physician who is accommodating to him, reassuring, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.12) asaṃbhrāntena yuktena prayoktavyaṃ cikitsitam | śoṣiṇo ' thabalasthasya pañcakarma vidhīyate || > unflustered, and skilled, treatment should be applied. / Now, for a wasting patient who has strength, pañcakarma is prescribed; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.13) tad eva kṣīṇamāṃsasya prayuktaṃ viṣamaṃ bhavet | tasya saṃśuddhākāyasya bhojanānyupakalpayet || > that very \[treatment\] applied to one whose flesh is depleted would be perilous. / For him whose body has been purified, one should prepare meals: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.14) kalamān dīrghaśūkāṃś ca raktaśāliṃ saṣaṣṭikān | yavānnavikṛtīś cāpi jāṅgalāṃś ca mṛgadvijān || > kalamā and dīrghaśūka rice, red rice along with ṣaṣṭika, / preparations of barley food, and dry-land game animals and birds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.15) bhojaneṣu praśaṃsanti mudgān sūpārtham eva ca | saṃvatsarasthitaṃ dhānyaṃ bhojane śoṣiṇāṃ hitam || > In meals they praise mudga beans for soup; / grain that has stood for one year is beneficial in the diet of wasting patients, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.16) taddhi vīryādahīnaṃ syānmāṃsaṃ sadyohataṃ ca yat | viśeṣataś ca māṃsāni kravyādabilavāsinām || > for that is not lacking in potency; and meat that is freshly killed, / and especially the meats of carnivorous animals and hole-dwellers. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.17) śoṣī nityaṃ niṣeveta madyāni vividhāni ca | śleṣmā dehe vivṛddho ' pi vāyunā susamīritaḥ || > A wasting patient should constantly partake of various types of liquor. / Kapha, though increased in the body, driven strongly by vāyu, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.18) pittaṃ raktaṃ ca sandūṣyasrotāṃsyūrdhvaṃ ruṇaddhi hi | te parasparasaṃruddhā dhātavaḥ pavaneritāḥ || > vitiating pitta and blood, blocks the upward channels. / Those tissues, mutually blocked and propelled by the wind, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.19) kaphapradhānā rundhanti sarvā rasavahāḥ sirāḥ | tadā tā rasavāhinyaḥsirāhṛdayavāhikāḥ || > predominated by kapha, obstruct all the chyle-carrying vessels. / Then those chyle-carrying vessels that lead to the heart > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.20) rasamāhārajātānāṃ na vahanti yathā purā | tasya bhuktaṃ na raktāya na māṃsāya ca kalpate || > do not convey the chyle produced from food as formerly. / His consumed food does not contribute to blood, nor to flesh, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.21) na ca medo+asthimajjabhyo na śuklatvāy dehinām | teṣāmavṛddhādhātūnāṃbaddhānāmayaneṣv atha || > nor to fat, bone, and marrow, nor to semen in embodied beings. / For them, as their tissues do not increase and are blocked in their pathways, then, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.22) bhuñjānānām api sarogāṇi gātrāṇi dehinām | hetunā tena śuṣyanti śuṣyatāṃ śoṣavanti ca || > even though they eat, the limbs of embodied beings become diseased; / for that reason they waste away, and become wasting for those who are wasting. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.23) etacchoṣasya śoṣatvaṃmukhyamāhurmanīṣiṇaḥ | sattveṣv atipramāthitvaṃ vyālakarma yathā++āpadi || > The wise call this the primary nature of wasting (śoṣa). / Extreme churning force among living beings is like the action of a beast of prey in distress; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.24) māṃsāny api tathā teṣāṃsrotāṃsi vikasanty api | śodhayanti pramāthitvāt srotāṃsi grathitāny api || > likewise, the meats of those \[carnivores\] also dilate the channels; / because of their churning force, they purify even knotted channels. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.25) tasmāt kravyādamāṃsāni śoṣīśaktyāvaśīlayet | rahasyametadvaidyānām upadiṣṭaṃ cikitsakaiḥ || > Therefore, the wasting patient should partake of meats of carnivores according to capacity; / this is the secret of physicians taught by medical practitioners. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.26) madyaṃ kravyādamāṃsaṃ ca śoṣiṇāmamṛtopamam | vṛkāḥ śṛgālā ṛkṣāḥśvasiṃhavyāghrāssasūkarāḥ || > Liquor and the meat of carnivores are like nectar to wasting patients: / wolves, jackals, bears, dogs, lions, tigers, along with pigs, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.27) eṇaśabdena dātavyā nānādravyābhisaṃskṛtāḥ | gṛdhrān sahaṃsānulūkānmaṇḍūkāñśyenavāyasān || > should be given under the name of deer (eṇa), seasoned with various substances. / Vultures, swans, owls, frogs, falcons, and crows > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.28) dadyādbarhiṇaśabdena madyaṃ ca niyataṃ pibet | ākhumārjāralopākān dvijihvāñśalyakānapi || > one should give under the name of peacock, and he should regularly drink liquor. / Mice, cats, foxes, snakes, and hedgehogs, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.29) nakulāṃstāmracūḍāṃś ca bhakṣayecca susaṃskṛtān | anyamāṃsopadeśena māṃsāny etāni dāpayet || > mongooses, and roosters—these he should eat, well prepared. / One should administer these meats under the instruction of other meats; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.30) jugupsayā vamati vā pāde ' tyavahito bhavet | tasmād rahasyasiddhāni māṃsāny etāni bhakṣayet || > or he may vomit out of disgust; \[the physician\] should be extremely attentive at every step. / Therefore, he should eat these meats prepared in secret. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.31) bileśayakravyabhujāṃ bhiṣaṅ māṃsāni lābhataḥ | toyadroṇeṣu daśasu tulāmatha vipācayet || > Procuring as available the meats of hole-dwellers and carnivores, / the physician should then boil one tulā in ten droṇas of water. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.32) aṣṭabhāgāvaśiṣṭantu rasaṃ visrāvayed bhiṣak | garbheṇa jīvanīyānāṃ sarpirdroṇaṃ vipācayet || > When one-eighth remains, the physician should strain the broth. / With a paste of the jīvanīya herbs, he should cook a droṇa of ghee. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.33) tatpibenmātrataḥ sarpirmāṃsaṃ tenaiva sādhayet | kāsaṃ śvāsaṃ sahṛdrogaṃ jvaraṃ pārśvarujām api || > He should drink that ghee according to measure, and with it prepare meat. / Cough, dyspnea, along with heart disease, fever, and pain in the sides, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.34) śvayathuṃ svarabhedaṃ ca śoṣiṇāmapakarṣati | pañcamūlaṃ mahaddhrasvaṃ golomīṃ madhukaṃ balām || > swelling, and hoarseness of voice it removes in wasting patients. / The greater and lesser pañcamūla, golomī, madhuka, balā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.35) vipācayejjaladroṇe caturbhāgāvaśeṣitam | tatkaṣāyaṃ jalaṃpūtaṃ ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet || > one should cook in a droṇa of water until reduced to a fourth part. / In that strained decoction water, one should cook a prastha of ghee, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.36) caturguṇena payasā jīvanīyaiś ca peṣitaiḥ | vidāryāmalakānāṃ tu tathaivekṣo rasasya ca || > with four times as much milk and the pounded jīvanīya herbs; / and likewise of the juices of vidārī, āmalaka, and sugar cane, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.37) dadyād ghṛtasamān bhāgān tatpacenmṛdunā ' gninā || rasāyanīyam iti tat khyātaṃsarpirbalāvaham || > one should add parts equal to the ghee; one should cook that with a gentle fire. / It is renowned as a rejuvenating ghee that brings strength, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.38) hṛdrogakṣatakāsānāṃ kṣayāṇāṃ ca nivāraṇam | ataḥ sarpirguḍaṃ kuryāc charkarāmadhusaṃyutam || > dispelling heart disease, chest-wound cough, and wasting diseases. / From this one may make a ghee confection (sarpiṣ-guḍa) combined with sugar and honey, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.39) godhūmacūrṇena saha modakānvāpi kārayet | pūrvokteṣu vikāreṣu śoṣiṇāmamṛtopamam || > or one may prepare modaka sweetmeats along with wheat flour; / in the aforementioned disorders, it is like nectar for wasting patients. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.40) kṣīrānupānaṃ bhakṣyāste modakā balavardhanāḥ | madyānupānāssevyāste śoṣaḥ śleṣmādhiko yadi || > Those modakas, increasing strength, are to be eaten with milk as an after-drink; / they are to be consumed with liquor as an after-drink if the wasting has an excess of kapha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.41) prasthārdhaṃdhautaluñcitatilānāṃ kalkapeṣitam | toyaprasthena saṃyojya ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet || > Combining half a prastha of washed and husked sesame seeds ground into a paste / with a prastha of water, one should cook a prastha of ghee. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.42) atha siddhaṃ ca pūtaṃ ca punastadvipaced ghṛtam | saha kravyādamāṃsena kṣīreṇeha ca sarvaśaḥ || > Then, cooked and strained, one should cook that ghee again / with the meat of carnivores and with milk here in every way, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.43) bilvamātreṇa piṇḍenabhāvitena sadāmbunā | jāṅgalena ca māṃsena sukṛtena vidhānavit || > with a lump measuring a bilva, continually steeped with water, / and with well-prepared meat of dry-land animals, one who knows the procedure \[should do so\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.44) atha siddhaṃ ca pūtaṃ ca punaragnāvadhiśrayet | prasthena payasā sārdhaṃ samyagikṣurasāḍhake || > Then, cooked and strained, he should place it on the fire again / along with a prastha of milk in properly one āḍhaka of sugar cane juice, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.45) vidārīṃ mudgaparṇīṃ ca māṣaparṇīṃ kaserukam | śṛṅgāṭakamṛṇālāni padmabījaṃ sajīvakam || > vidārī, mudgaparṇī, māṣaparṇī, kaseruka, / śṛṅgāṭaka, lotus fibers, lotus seed, along with jīvaka, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.46) kṣīraśuklāṃsaṛṣabhāṃ medāṃ samadhukāṃ tathā | payasyāṃ kṣīrakākolīṃ kandaṃ nīlotpalasya ca || > kṣīraśuklā, along with ṛṣabha, medā, and likewise madhuka, / payasyā, kṣīrakākolī, and tuber of blue water lily, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.47) saha tālakadambena kalkāṃstānakṣasammitān | tasminnāloḍya tat sarvaṃ vipacenmṛdunāgninā || > along with tālakadamba—pastes of these measuring an akṣa each; / stirring that all into it, he should cook it with a gentle fire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.48) tatsiddhaṃ srāvayitvā tu nirvātaṃ syādyathāmṛtam | tataḥprātarghanībhūtaṃkhajenābhipramanthayet || > Having strained that when cooked, so that it becomes like nectar when protected from the wind, / then in the morning, when it has thickened, one should thoroughly churn it with a churning stick. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.49) athātra śarkarācūrṇaṃpañcāśatpalasammitam | mathyamānaṃ tato dadyāddattvā dattvā ca manthayet || > Then into this, sugar powder measuring fifty palas / one should add while churning, and having added repeatedly, churn. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.50) gandhārthaṃ cātra deyaṃ syāccūrṇaṃtvaṅnāgapuṣpayoḥ | ekībhūtaṃ tathā rātrimekāṃ parivasedatha || > And for fragrance, cinnamon bark and nāgapuṣpa powder should be added here; / blended into one, it should then be kept for one night. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.51) akṣapramāṇasaṃsthānāḥ kāryās tu modakās tathā | yavagodhūmacūrṇābhyāṃ tugākṣīryā ca cūrṇitān || > And modakas should be made resembling the measure of an akṣa, / dusted with barley flour, wheat flour, and tugākṣīrī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.52) bhakṣayenmodakān kāle kṣīrapānaṃ pibetpunaḥ | yakṣmāṇaṃ śamayantyete vṛkṣamindrāśaniryathā || > One should eat the modakas at the proper time and drink a potion of milk afterwards; / these pacify consumption (yakṣman) just as Indra's thunderbolt does a tree. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.53) asṛgdaraṃ kṣataṃ kṣīṇaṃ hṛdrogaṃ viṣamajvaram | unmāda raktapittaṃ ca kāsaṃ caitena sādhayet || > Menorrhagia (asṛgdara), chest wounds, debility, heart disease, intermittent fever, / madness, internal hemorrhage, and cough—one should conquer with this. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.54) aśvatthasyātha mūlāni śuṅgāni saphalāni ca | śatāvarīṃ pṛśniparṇīṃ bṛhatīṃ kaṇṭakārikām || > Then the roots of aśvattha, the leaf-buds, along with fruits, / śatāvarī, pṛśniparṇī, bṛhatī, kaṇṭakārikā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.55) golomīṃ śreyasīṃ kālāṃ śāribāṃ sapunarnavām | kṣīradroṇeṣu daśasu kuṭṭitāni vipācayet || > golomī, śreyasī, kālā, śāribā, along with punarnavā, / crushed, one should boil in ten droṇas of milk. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.56) tacchṛtaṃ śītalaṃ pūtaṃkhajenābhipramanthayet | yattatra sarpirjāyetataduddhṛtya vipācayet || > That boiled \[milk\], cooled and strained, one should churn with a churning stick; / whatever ghee is produced there, having extracted that, one should cook it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.57) bhaiṣajyāni ca piṣṭāni tatremāni samācaret | madhukaṃ madhuliṃ drākṣāṃ medāṃ vṛṣabhajīrakau || > And there one should employ these crushed medicines: / madhuka, madhulī, drākṣā, medā, vṛṣabha, and jīraka, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.58) tālamajjāṃsalāmajjaṃ tathāpuṣkarabījakam | jīvanīṃ trāyamāṇāṃ ca madhukāni kaśerukam || > pulp of palmyra, pulp of mango, and also puṣkarabīja, / jīvanī, trāyamāṇā, the two madhukas, and kaśeruka, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.59) nīlotpalaṃ puṇḍarīkaṃ vārtākānapi coccaṭām | kāśmaryāmalakekṣūṇāṃ vidāryāḥ svarasaṃ ca vā || > blue water lily, puṇḍarīka, brinjal, and uccaṭā, / or the fresh juice of kāśmarī, āmalaka, sugarcane, and vidārī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.60) tatsiddhaṃ dāpayet pūtaṃ kalaśe rājate dṛḍhe | tulārdhaṃ śarkarāyāś ca dattvā caivābhimanthayet || > When it is prepared and strained, one should place it in a sturdy silver vessel; / and having added half a tulā of sugar, one should churn it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.61) prakṣipec ca tugākṣīryāḥ prasthaṃ prasthaṃ ca mākṣikāt | ātmaguptāphalasya syād guḍasya maricasya ca || > And one should cast in a prastha of tugākṣīrī and a prastha of honey, / and \[a prastha each\] of the fruit of ātmaguptā, jaggery, and pepper, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.62) uccaṭīkṣurasābhyāṃ ca dvau prasthau tatra dāpayet | tvagelānāgapuṣpāṇāṃ cūrṇaṃ tatra pradāpayet || > and of uccaṭā and sugarcane juice one should add two prasthas there; / one should add there the powder of cinnamon, cardamom, and nāgapuṣpa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.63) palikān modakān kṛtvā sthāpayenmṛṇmaye nave | aśnīyāttatpalaṃkalyaṃ sāyaṃ bhūyaḥpalaṃ naraḥ || > Having made modakas of one pala each, one should store them in a new earthen jar; / a man should eat one pala of it in the morning, and again one pala in the evening. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.64) śayanaṃ mṛdu seveta brahmacārī samāhitaḥ | karmaṇānena niyataṃ yakṣmāṇamapakarṣati || > He should resort to a soft bed, celibate and composed in mind; / by this treatment, he certainly removes consumption. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.65) saṃbṛhayatiśuṣkaṃ ca puruṣaṃdurbalendriyam | vājīkaraṇamapyetannarāṇāṃ kṣīṇaretasām || > And it nourishes an emaciated man whose faculties are weakened; / this is also an aphrodisiac for men whose semen is depleted. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.66) strībhir hatā bhārahatāḥ jīrṇāś cātītayauvanāḥ | kṣīṇamāṃsāḥ kṣīṇabalāḥ ye cātha kṣīṇaśoṇitāḥ || > Those worn out by women, worn out by heavy burdens, decrepit, and past their youth, / those whose flesh is depleted, whose strength is depleted, and whose blood is depleted, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.67) pittaroge raktapitte śoṣe doṣajvare tathā | hatendriyā naṣṭaśuklāḥsaktakaṇṭhāś ca ye smṛtāḥ || > in bile disease, internal hemorrhage, wasting, and fever born of the doshas, / those whose faculties are destroyed, whose semen is lost, and whose throats are obstructed, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.68) aśaktamandakā ye caratinaṣṭendriyā narāḥ | punarnavāṃstānkurute yogo ' yamamṛtopamaḥ || > and men who are powerless, weak, and whose senses are destroyed— / this formulation, like ambrosia, makes them renewed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.69) apasmārānathonmādān hṛdrogānapatantrakam | tejo vāpahṛtaṃyeṣāṃ bhūtadharmeṇa kenacit || > In cases of epilepsy, insanity, heart disease, and apatan-trakam, / or those whose vital energy has been stolen by some demonic influence, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.70) kṣīrānupānāttanvanti sadyaḥpoṣaṃ hi modakāḥ | vyākulātyalpādhātūnāṃ śoṣiṇāṃ mandadehinām || > these modakas, followed by milk as a drink, indeed effect immediate nourishment / for wasting patients whose tissues are disordered and very meager, and whose bodily faculties are weak. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.71) api yogaśatenāpi duḥkham eva cikitsitam | tasmād rasāyanavidhiṃ vardhamāne kṣaye bhiṣak || > Even with a hundred formulations, it is cured only with difficulty; / therefore, when consumption increases, the physician \[should administer\] the rejuvenation regimen, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.72) saṃvatsaraṃparamṛtumayanaṃ vā samācaret | pippalīvardhamānaṃ tu pañcapañcavivardhitam || > he should employ it for a year, an autumn season, or a half-year: / the gradually increasing pippalī, increased by fives, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.73) nasye cābhyañjane pāne praśastaṃ bastikarmaṇi | vātavyādhiṣu sarveṣu kṣatakṣīṇe śirograhe || > praised in nasal therapy, massage, drinks, and enema treatment, / in all wind diseases, chest-lesion wasting, and stiffness of the head, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.74) pārśvaśūle pramehe ca gulmesārśobhagandare | cyutabhagnāṅgahīnānāṃ kāse śvāse ca hṛdgrahe || > in flank pain, urinary disease, gulma, hemorrhoids, and fistula-in-ano, / for those suffering from dislocations, fractures, and loss of limbs, and in cough, dyspnea, and cardiac spasm, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.75) jvarātisāreṣv arucauvarṇabhede svarakṣaye | sukumāram idaṃ tailaṃ bālavṛddhasukhāvaham || > in fever with diarrhea, anorexia, discoloration, and loss of voice. / This Sukumāra oil brings comfort to children and the elderly; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.76) etaddhi vṛṣyaṃ balyaṃ camāsānmāṃsavivardhanam | svaravarṇakaraṃ caiva śoṣiṇāmamṛtopamam || > for it is aphrodisiac, strength-giving, and promotes flesh within a month; / it confers voice and complexion, and is like ambrosia for those with wasting. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.77) niṣpākaś cāsya tailasya samyak siddhasya yo bhavet | udaśvidiva dadhyarthaṃ so ' pi kṛtyakaro bhavet || > And whatever residue of this oil is obtained when it is properly prepared, / even that, like buttermilk serving in place of curds, can perform the task. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.78) ekādaśa ca ṣaṭ caivaśoṣajā ya upadravāḥ | sukumāraṃ praśamayenmedho ' gnīniva vṛṣṭimān || > The eleven and the six complications that arise from wasting, / Sukumāra pacifies, as a rain-cloud pacifies fires. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.79) luñcitānāṃ tilānāṃ tu tailaprasthaṃ vipācayet | palaṃ tu madhukasyātra garbhaṃ kṣīraṃ caturguṇam || > One should cook a prastha of oil of hulled sesame seeds, / and here the paste is a pala of madhuka, with four times as much milk. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.80) mṛdupākaṃ ca tatsiddhaṃ bhūya eva vipācayet | caturguṇena payasā madhukasyapalena ca || > And when that is prepared with gentle boiling, one should cook it yet again / with four times as much milk and a pala of madhuka. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.81) etena vidhinā caiva madhukasyaśataṃ pacet | śatakṛtvovipakvantu śatapākam iti smṛtam || > And by this method one should cook a hundred \[palas\] of madhuka; / cooked a hundred times, it is known as śatapāka. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.82) pānābhyañjananasyeṣu bastau vyañjanasādhane | bhojane cāmṛtaprakhyaṃ narāṇāṃ rājayakṣmiṇām || > In drinking, massage, nasal therapies, enemas, the preparation of sauces, / and in food, it is like ambrosia for men suffering from consumption. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.83) hṛdrogaṃ tāluśoṣaṃ ca pārśvaśūlaṃ pratānakam | tṛṣṇāmunmādavīsarpaṃ kāsaṃ śvāsamasṛgdaram || > Heart disease, dryness of the palate, flank pain, convulsions, / thirst, insanity, erysipelas, cough, dyspnea, menorrhagia, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.84) raktapittaṃ pravṛddhaṃ ca sarvato bhāgamūrcchitam | kāmalāṃ pāṇḍurogaṃ ca pānādetanniyacchati || > internal hemorrhage aggravated and surging in every direction, / jaundice, and chlorosis—it checks these through drinking. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.85) mukhapākākṣipākau ca bādhiryaṃ karṇavedanām | naktāndhyaṃ timiraṃ kācaṃ liṅganāśaṃsirācayam || > Stomatitis, conjunctivitis, deafness, earache, / night-blindness, timira, kāca, cataract, engorged vessels, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.86) biḍālikāṃ pūtinasyaṃ śirorogaṃ śirograham | nastaḥ kṛtaṃ praṇudati khālity aṃ palitāni ca || > biḍālikā, foul nasal discharge, head disease, and stiffness of the head— / administered through the nose, it dispels \[these\] as well as baldness and greying of the hair. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.87) adhobhāge raktapitte raktārśassu bhagandare | sarvagātragate vāteraktapittasamudbhave || > In downward internal hemorrhage, bleeding piles, fistula-in-ano, / in wind pervading the entire body arising from internal hemorrhage, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.88) aprajassu ca nārīṣu puṃsāṃ naṣṭe ca retasi | jānutrikādikubjeṣu praśastaṃ bastikarmaṇi || > in women without offspring, and when the semen of men is destroyed, / in bent joints of the knees, sacrum, and so forth, it is praised in enema treatment. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.89) bahūparodhāḥ strīnity āḥ teṣāṃ vṛṣyatamaṃ matam | prayogeṇa prayuktaṃ ca rasāyanamanuttamam || > For those with many obstacles and those constant with women, it is considered the supreme aphrodisiac; / and applied methodically, it is an unsurpassed rejuvenator. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.90) sahasrapākam ity etat kalpenaitena sādhayet | rasāyanamidaṃ prāhurnṛṇāṃ varṣasahasrakṛt || > One should prepare 'thousand-cooked' (sahasrapāka) by this same rule; / they say this rejuvenator confers a thousand years on men. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.91) aśvagandhā hy apāmārgo nākulī gaurasarṣapāḥ | tilā bilvaṃ ca kalkaṃ syāt tatra rakṣayonmardanaṃ param || > Aśvagandhā, apāmārga, nākulī, white mustard, / sesame, and bilva should be the paste; there, anointing \[with it\] is supreme for consumption. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.92) maṅgalācārasaṃyukto bhavetsvastyayano naraḥ | snānāni śāntihomāṃś ca śoṣī nityaṃ samācarete || > The man should be endowed with auspicious conduct and perform blessings; / the wasting patient should constantly perform baths, rites of pacification, and fire-oblations. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.93) iṣṭayo vedavihitā nāśanā rājayakṣmaṇaḥ | tāś ca nityaṃ niṣeveta pūjayed vṛṣabhadhvajam || > Sacrifices prescribed in the Veda are destroyers of consumption; / one should constantly resort to them and worship the bull-bannered \[Śiva\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.94) upadravāś ca ye śeṣe ṣaṭ caikādaśa coditāḥ | teṣāṃ cikitsitaṃ kuryād yathā sve sve cikitsite || > And whatever six and eleven complications are mentioned in wasting, / one should treat them according to their respective therapeutics. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.4.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.95) ity evaṃ prayatenoktaṃ rājyakṣacikitsitam | yaśaḥsvargakaraṃ puṇyaṃ śiṣyāṇāmarthasiddhaye || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele cikitsite caturtho ' dhyāyaḥ || || pañcamo ' dhyāyaḥ || athāto gulmacikitsitaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | > Thus has the therapeutics of consumption been spoken by the disciplined one, / conferring fame and heaven, auspicious, for the success of his pupils’ purpose. / So spoke the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the fourth chapter in Bheḷa’s Therapeutics. / Chapter Five: / Now we shall explain the therapeutics of gulma, as the venerable Ātreya said: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.6.4.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [Kāśyapasaṃhitā (Vṛddhajīvakīyatantra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.kaumara.kasyapa.5.8.5.p1) — Mārīca Kaśyapa & Vātsya, Sanskrit - [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.13) — Sanskrit - [Gadanigraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.gadanigraha.4.302) — Soḍhala, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4) · Pramāṇa